I found Mr Patson’s letter interesting (The Bolton News, April 30).

Parking tickets can only be enforced where signs are displayed, no signage then the ticket is illegal.

Some roads in Bolton borough have no defined width, the same applies to footpaths, so the landowner may wish to narrow such a route and nothing can be done to stop that.

My extended family and friends own routes here and there — they have not reduced the width to unusable, but in some cases have reduced width for planning consents on nearby land.

They have considered locals.

Hence there has never been an issue, this is something other owners may wish to consider.

A footpath I owned was reduced on my instruction without objections.

An unadopted road is only public if access is all year, a one day closure stops problems.

A road must have been used all year for 20 years to be a public highway, something the council may not wish you to know.

If the road is closed at least one day per year then the road is private and the authority have no rights whatsoever.

Paul Lacey
Bolton